But the families of the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, seem to be always faced with reminders, as they were this week when Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of 270 counts of murder, appeared at a rally to support Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy.

Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 terrorist attack, walked free from prison in 2009 after the Scottish government released him on compassionate grounds, presuming he had only three months to live due to prostate cancer.

Nearly two years later, he remains alive. He served eight years of a 27-year sentence.

Libyan state television showed Megrahi, in a wheelchair, at a gathering to support Khadafy.

“I try not to let it get to me anymore,” said Kara Weipz, 38, whose brother Rick Monetti was killed in the bombing. “It was so bad when they released him, I promised myself never to let myself get that way again.”